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Recent work in multi-view stereo (MVS) combines learnable photometric scores and regularization with PatchMatch-based optimization to achieve robust pixelwise estimates of depth, normals, and visibility. However, non-learning based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Jae Yong Lee , Chuhang Zou , Derek Hoiem

We propose an online multi-view depth prediction approach on posed video streams, where the scene geometry information computed in the previous time steps is propagated to the current time step in an efficient and geometrically plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Arda Düzçeker , Silvano Galliani , Christoph Vogel , Pablo Speciale , Mihai Dusmanu , Marc Pollefeys

In computer vision domain, how to fast and accurately perform multiview stereo (MVS) is still a challenging problem. In this paper we present a fast yet accurate method for 3D dense reconstruction, called AMHMVS, built on the PatchMatch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Qingshan Xu , Wenbing Tao

Deep multi-view stereo (MVS) methods have been developed and extensively compared on simple datasets, where they now outperform classical approaches. In this paper, we ask whether the conclusions reached in controlled scenarios are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 François Darmon , Bénédicte Bascle , Jean-Clément Devaux , Pascal Monasse , Mathieu Aubry

Patch deformation-based methods have recently exhibited substantial effectiveness in multi-view stereo, due to the incorporation of deformable and expandable perception to reconstruct textureless areas. However, such approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhenlong Yuan , Jinguo Luo , Fei Shen , Zhaoxin Li , Cong Liu , Tianlu Mao , Zhaoqi Wang

Unsupervised Multi-View Stereo (MVS) methods have achieved promising progress recently. However, previous methods primarily depend on the photometric consistency assumption, which may suffer from two limitations: indistinguishable regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Kaiqiang Xiong , Rui Peng , Zhe Zhang , Tianxing Feng , Jianbo Jiao , Feng Gao , Ronggang Wang

To reconstruct the 3D geometry from calibrated images, learning-based multi-view stereo (MVS) methods typically perform multi-view depth estimation and then fuse depth maps into a mesh or point cloud. To improve the computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Fangjinhua Wang , Qingshan Xu , Yew-Soon Ong , Marc Pollefeys

Deep learning has recently demonstrated its excellent performance for multi-view stereo (MVS). However, one major limitation of current learned MVS approaches is the scalability: the memory-consuming cost volume regularization makes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Yao Yao , Zixin Luo , Shiwei Li , Tianwei Shen , Tian Fang , Long Quan

In this work, we propose a novel approach to prioritize the depth map computation of multi-view stereo (MVS) to obtain compact 3D point clouds of high quality and completeness at low computational cost. Our prioritization approach operates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Christian Mostegel , Friedrich Fraundorfer , Horst Bischof

We present MVSGaussian, a new generalizable 3D Gaussian representation approach derived from Multi-View Stereo (MVS) that can efficiently reconstruct unseen scenes. Specifically, 1) we leverage MVS to encode geometry-aware Gaussian…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Tianqi Liu , Guangcong Wang , Shoukang Hu , Liao Shen , Xinyi Ye , Yuhang Zang , Zhiguo Cao , Wei Li , Ziwei Liu

Underwater scene reconstruction poses a substantial challenge because of the intricate interplay between light and the medium, resulting in scattering and absorption effects that make both depth estimation and rendering more complex. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Shuyi Hu , Qi Liu

Image datasets have been steadily growing in size, harming the feasibility and efficiency of large-scale 3D reconstruction methods. In this paper, a novel approach for scaling Multi-View Stereo (MVS) algorithms up to arbitrarily large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Marco Orsingher , Paolo Zani , Paolo Medici , Massimo Bertozzi

Finding accurate correspondences among different views is the Achilles' heel of unsupervised Multi-View Stereo (MVS). Existing methods are built upon the assumption that corresponding pixels share similar photometric features. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Di Chang , Aljaž Božič , Tong Zhang , Qingsong Yan , Yingcong Chen , Sabine Süsstrunk , Matthias Nießner

Self-supervised Multi-view stereo (MVS) with a pretext task of image reconstruction has achieved significant progress recently. However, previous methods are built upon intuitions, lacking comprehensive explanations about the effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Hongbin Xu , Zhipeng Zhou , Yali Wang , Wenxiong Kang , Baigui Sun , Hao Li , Yu Qiao

We introduce a learning-based depth map fusion framework that accepts a set of depth and confidence maps generated by a Multi-View Stereo (MVS) algorithm as input and improves them. This is accomplished by integrating volumetric visibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Nathaniel Burgdorfer , Philippos Mordohai

The success of existing deep-learning based multi-view stereo (MVS) approaches greatly depends on the availability of large-scale supervision in the form of dense depth maps. Such supervision, while not always possible, tends to hinder the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Yuchao Dai , Zhidong Zhu , Zhibo Rao , Bo Li

Today, Multi-View Stereo techniques are able to reconstruct robust and detailed 3D models, especially when starting from high-resolution images. However, there are cases in which the resolution of input images is relatively low, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Eugenio Lomurno , Andrea Romanoni , Matteo Matteucci

Learning-based multi-view stereo (MVS) methods have demonstrated promising results. However, very few existing networks explicitly take the pixel-wise visibility into consideration, resulting in erroneous cost aggregation from occluded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Jingyang Zhang , Yao Yao , Shiwei Li , Zixin Luo , Tian Fang

Traditional multi-view stereo (MVS) methods rely heavily on photometric and geometric consistency constraints, but newer machine learning-based MVS methods check geometric consistency across multiple source views only as a post-processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Vibhas K. Vats , Sripad Joshi , David J. Crandall , Md. Alimoor Reza , Soon-heung Jung

Deep learning based 3D shape generation methods generally utilize latent features extracted from color images to encode the semantics of objects and guide the shape generation process. These color image semantics only implicitly encode 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Rakesh Shrestha , Zhiwen Fan , Qingkun Su , Zuozhuo Dai , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan